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View SlideshowRequest to buy this photoAmr Abdallah Dalsh | REUTERSProtesters scale the walls of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and destroy a U.S. flag on the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack. Egyptian police did not intervene for hours.

CAIRO — Protesters in Libya and Egypt stormed U.S. diplomatic missions yesterday on the 11th
anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack in a day of rage that underscored the growth of fundamentalist
movements in countries where new governments were swept to power in the aftermath of last year’s
Arab spring.

One American was killed when militants stormed the U.S. consulate in Libya’s second-largest
city, Benghazi, Reuters reported.

Late last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton confirmed that one State Department officer
was killed in the attack.

Earlier, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement emailed to reporters: “
We are working with the Libyans now to secure the compound. We condemn in strongest terms this
attack on our diplomatic mission.”

In Cairo, thousands of demonstrators stormed the U.S. Embassy, lowered the American flag and
destroyed it, then danced atop the walls in a protest that lasted hours.

Egyptian police made no effort to confront the demonstrators. It wasn’t until hours later that
Egyptian police forced the demonstrators from the embassy compound.

Nuland said State Department officials had been unable to confirm whether the two attacks were
connected.

The violence, however, appeared to fit a pattern of growing fundamentalist ferment that has
touched all of the countries where governments have fallen in the past 18 months. That trend has
been especially pronounced in Libya, where in recent weeks conservative Islamists have leveled
mosques and cemeteries associated with the moderate Sufi strain of Islam.

In Cairo, the protest was sparked by a pair of developments that stoked old grievances against
the United States: that it is anti-Muslim and doing harm to the Muslim world.

As the flag was torn and then set on fire, a man climbed a ladder alongside the flagpole and
replaced the flag with one that read, “There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his
messengeer."

Among the chants yelled toward the embassy was, “Take a picture, Obama, we are all Osama,” a
reference to Osama bin Laden.

Organizers of the embassy protest said they began planning the event last week when a
controversial Egyptian Christian activist who lives in the United States, Morris Sadek, released a
trailer for a movie called
Muhammad, which repeatedly mocks the prophet and the religion.

The film controversy came as a controversial Florida pastor, Terry Jones, whose burning of a
Quran in 2011 set off days of rioting in Afghanistan, announced that he planned to put the prophet
on trial yesterday in what he called International Judge Muhammad Day.

In a video announcing the “trial,” Jones, wearing a black shirt with the word “Infidel” printed
on it in Arabic, said that he planned to charge the prophet “with being a false prophet, thus
leading 1.6 billion people astray.”

The embassy had tried to pre-empt the attack, issuing a statement hours earlier that condemned “
the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of
others.”

Embassy officials also called Nader Bakkar, a spokesman for the conservative Islamist Nour
party, and apologized for the film and Jones’ call, but Bakkar said he was unwilling to call off
the protest.

“The American people must know we do not accept any kind of insult of the prophet, peace be upon
him,” Bakkar said, adding that he nevertheless opposed pulling down the flag.

In Benghazi, which had been the seat of the rebel forces that last year toppled the government
of Moammar Gadhafi after a months-long NATO bombing campaign, protesters stormed the U.S.
consulate, setting the building ablaze.

Reuters also reported that the Libyan protesters were protesting the Sadek film.

U.S. officials, however, said they were uncertain that the two attacks were connected.